Michael Clayton (Blu-ray) R
The truth can be adjusted.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 19, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | George Clooney, Tilda Swinton & Tom Wilkinson | |
Performer: | Sydney Pollack | |
Directed by | Tony Gilroy | |
Screenwriting by | Tony Gilroy | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard | |
Produced by | Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Steve Samuels & Kerry Orent | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Elswit | |
Executive Production by | Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, James Holt & Anthony Minghella |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2007 -
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
Clooney's glamorous intelligence is deepened by his constant hints that slickness, like corporate integrity, is just an act.
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I.E. Weekly
Clooney can suggest depths of weary self-loathing...and his eventual hard-won redemption accordingly carries more emotional weight....Gilroy draws vivid performances from his cast...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Clooney's latest venture into panache is thriller style in Michael Clayton.
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
[A] terrifically engrossing, tethered-to-the-real-world drama....It's better than good; it's such a crackling and mature and accomplished movie that it just about restores your faith.
Entertainment Weekly
[Tony] Gilroy directs with a cool hand and an underplayed sense of drama, letting the words and the performances carry the film.
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Stream on Demand
[A] smart and suspenseful legal thriller that comes completely alive on-screen.
Los Angeles Times
The storytelling is so good I simply got caught up, and, as for George, he is seriously, seriously good... Here, his performance is passionate, subtle and right on the money.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is what is known in the legal world as a "fixer," or in the character's own pejorative version, a "janitor" who cleans up legal messes for VIPs and corporations on behalf of a prestigious New York City law firm. A former litigator, Clayton has found a niche that capitalizes on his legal acumen and shrewd people skills, and yet, after 13 years on the job, finds himself increasingly disgusted with his clientele. The film covers four pivotal days of his life, in which a midlife crisis and a crisis of conscience neatly converge when he is called in to "fix" a situation unfolding in one of his firm's hottest cases. Brilliant lawyer Arthur Edens (another powerhouse performance by Tom Wilkinson), representing a huge agro-chemical corporation being hit by a class action suit, has a bipolar breakdown, compounded by guilt over his defense of a company that is probably in the wrong, but is wealthy enough to buy its innocence either way. The company's CEO (Tilda Swinton) will stop at nothing to keep Edens from sinking the case. Clayton must decide how much of Edens's mad rebellion against the company is sheer mental illness, how much is true, and how much it will cost him to do the right thing.
Clooney delivers a rich performance as a hangdog and haunted man who wants to stay on the side of good, but is a little too skilled at moral margin-walking to make that an easy choice in every situation. Swinton glows as a secretly frail Amazon who somehow won't let a tortured conscience prevent her from getting ahead. The final third of the film is as suspenseful as any courtroom drama, without ever resorting to legal-thriller cliches.
Clooney delivers a rich performance as a hangdog and haunted man who wants to stay on the side of good, but is a little too skilled at moral margin-walking to make that an easy choice in every situation. Swinton glows as a secretly frail Amazon who somehow won't let a tortured conscience prevent her from getting ahead. The final third of the film is as suspenseful as any courtroom drama, without ever resorting to legal-thriller cliches.
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